The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21

there dine with the great editor and pbilauthro-
pist And yet folks wonder what the summer
residents at Long Branch find to talk about
Mr.. Chlids is an embodiment of bland, urbane
dignity. To see him in q group in q hotel parlor
otherwise composed of Freddy Gebhard, Larry
Jerome. Charley Coghlan and tho Langtry is
the spectacle OF summer. Mr.. Childs IS
equaled in courtliness by one gentleman at Long
Branch, and he Ex-Governor Bedle, of New
Jersey. VINO is spendanigs, the season at the same
seen. Mr. Childs took occasion to wander to
Mr. Bedle's side
'.Ah. how do you do7" he said. shaking the
others hand Let me introduce the Jersey
Governor to the Jersey Lily"
Thank you. thank you.. and the usually COM
posed politician almost stammered in confusion.
81 really cant-friend walting-must 60" and
away he toGdled
Let it not be supposed that there are no
interesting women left in New York in August.
Studies at baseball are worth making. if do
them in the fashionable Howells vein of plot
lessness. Among the spectators at the Polo
grounds the other day was young lady with
marvelously trim figure. 1t was made mani
fest by dress Of gray and black striped, very
light material without excess OF trimming Her
features were beautifully regular and the cold
ness of her eyes gave her naughty bearing. 1t
would have seemed that her proper place was
in no less distinguished position than chambers
maid TO the Queen God bless her!-but she
seemed well content to be in the grand-stand at
American game of ball. With her was
pretty young man who seemed to be under her
escort,
titude in conversation criticism and even
in movement. He submitted to all this with
air of grateful humility. She had handsome
pair of field glasses slune from her shoulder.
They came early and thus secured good seats in
the front row. The first thing she did when
they had selected their places, and before she
sat down. to produce the glasses and look
off towards the club house at the further side Of
the field. The New Yorks were in view there,
tossing the ball about in preliminary practice.
The Detroit nine was in the field proper. doing
he inO q
moment she said to her companion without re-
moving the glass:
.sORourke is going to catch" Then there
was pause. II can't make out who is pitching
to him. 1t is some stranger, some young fellow
from the reserves, l suppose. I'm so sorry!
did so much want to see Keefe in the box to-day.
down frownng.
Yes" replied the pretty man, Il got two
She looked 1t to who to pitch for
New York, and her naughty expression betrayed
astonishment and doubt
"Sworbacker2" she asked "Who in the world
is hea" and up went the glass again. in critical
inspection of the new pitcher on the other side
of the grounds.
His movements are slow" she said, in
rent ''but he seems to be in good form. ] do
hope he won't get ratified" Then she turned
her attention to the Detroit men, nearer at hand.
''Getzein!" she exclaimed in dismay. she
the nervous twirler throwing the ball with
s.pretzeI curves" at big Bondy, the catcher.
''How can they hope do anything against
Getzein with amateura Such stupid manage
d
slaughter of the Giants to pay for it."
Perhaps this fellow Sworbacker will prove
to be phenomenon" mildly suggested the pret-
ty man.
II hope so," she said. 81 see they have an
other second. Carey I wonder
what he is like" and she again resorted to the
glasses to pick out the man for criticism in
the field near the clubhouse
The world would be surprised to know how
many kleptomaniacs there are in polite society.
A well known dry goods man says he has Gus
toner who steals about regularly as she pur-
chases. He makes rough estimate of her pill
ferngs, and the bill is never disputed by her
husband, who knows too we'll that the demands
are just. There is young married woman in
one of the wealthiest families who spend a
fortune year on little things. and vet she will
pick up and appropriate the merest trifes She
despoils her friends parlors of small articles. A
work basket is happy hunting ground for her.
On an easy calculation she must have hundred
pairs of scissors. In any o. the houses where
she habitually calls, if needles. threads and
thimbles are missing. the inquiry is heard. HAS
Mrs been here this morning" Broadway
baker. to whose shop it is the custom for ladies
to go for luncheon, has the family of this klepto
maniac among his customers: He makes out
his monthly bill for all that he leaves at the
house. and then puts in the mysterious
charge: Lunch loss, $25." She
.bs in the asn Of gns connie
of dollars worth, and then greeting the cashier
with an inventory of fifty cents worth She
will smiingy point out doughnuts and crullers
and an occasional ginger snap as having formed
her meal: whereas, she has been steadily eating
her way round the shop, munching ten-cent
tarts and fifteen cent eclaires. 1t would never
do to let her loose in the wine cellars the
trusting Dublin nrestaurant-keepers do with their
customers There many places in honest
old Dublin where you take your glass and & go by
surrounded by casks on whose aged head you
read the legend of their vintage. You make
your selection, help yourself go back to the SIM
pie landlord in the little taproom above stairs,
tell him what you have drank have settle
ment and go your way. Our New York young
up plum full Of Lachryma Christi, and tender the
deluded boniface the price of one glass of cider.
A dress maker telling of her troubles. A
wealthy lady was shown into parlor. the other
day, and left for few minutes to herself. just
before this visit another customer had bought
some rare lace to uee in the manufacture OF
upper drawer of cabinet when. few min
ntes later, it was brought to the work-room, the
forewoman sent word that the quantity was in
sufficient for the design, and the owner was noti-
fed. The lady came promptly. She had
measured the lace herself, bought it herself. and
if there were five yards to the pad, it had been
taken in the house. But that impossible,
urged the dress maker. one had been in
the room but Mrs -, and not one of the en-
ployes. Say no more" laughed the owner of
is, if Mrs. has been in its
The poor dress maker had
her eyes opened to many petty loss
since the kleptomaniac had favored her with her
custom. but she had good deal Of nerve She
took the remnant of lace and rode IN Fifth
avenue stage to Fiftierh street She was ad-
niitted to the august presence that August
afternoon. and she said she thought-in fact,
she knew-ive yards of lace belonging to Mrs.
Smith had been Inadvertently wrapped up with
the piece of Mrs. - dress; that Mrs. - had
carried it away TO have hat made from, be-
cause Mathilde. her purchase clerk, had been in
the room OF the parlor and seen Mrs. - gather
up the pieces OF silk and the lace, of course,
wholly bv mistake. So the thief, protesting
at her carelessness. went off and
found that such accident had really occurred.
handed the lace, and there the matter
ended. CLARA BELLE.
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